One customer of Toyota of Orange is waiting two months to get the car she really, really wants: an all-wheel-drive Sienna XLE Limited minivan in arctic frost pearl with a navigation system.
If you fill up an SUV or minivan with 25 gallons of ethanol and use that to drive around for a week, your vehicle has consumed as many food calories in one week as the average human being consumes in a year.
The case for a merger, meager as it is, could go something like this: buy Chrysler for almost nothing, spin off Jeep or Hummer, absorb the minivan operations and a few other product lines, like the Chrysler 300 rear-wheel-drive platform.